wiles otis (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Dj has chipping and fraying along edges, moderate wear, name stamp inside, text block clear and binding good. WR.

Hardcover. Condizione: VERY GOOD. 246pp. Ex-parish with minimal signs of use, dewey spine notation very clean and sharp otherwise.

11.5 x 8.5, metal clasped bound wraps, 52 leaves printe on rectos only, covers heavily edge-worn, toned, soiled, rear cover and last few pp coffee stained. Birdwell was a Hollywood publicist (Gone with the Wind, etc.) and writer. Otis Wiles was a Los Angeles Examiner writer, who died in 1948. Interesting story -- Willy Gay runs in the Olympic marathon, while the crowd shouts "Gay! Gay!".

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Whitaker, W.G.; Bates, Leo; Soper, G.; Gillett, F.; Robinson, T.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Lane, Harry; Crombie, Chas; Tennant, Dudley (illustratore). First Edition. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Witherell Kidnapping case - Mrs. Gladys Witherell was kidnapped for several days - article with photos of victim and perpetrators; Bad Man Louis - a tale from what is now Glacier National Park in Montana; The Justice of the North - The North-West Mounted Police set out in search of two Eskimos - Sinnisiak and Uluksak - who killed Catholic priests in Canada's north; The Cowboys of the Camargue - a description of the life and cowboys of Frances's Camargue; Through Central America on Horseback - Part I - Eugene Cunningham describes his trip by horseback south from San Jose, Costa Rica - with photos; The Wreck of the "Angola" - the horrible tale of 42 days afloat between China and the Philippines; The River of Mystery - the largely unknown Orange River of South Africa; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - VI - the author finds himself hired as a Montana ranch hand; Photo and brief writeup of Turkey farm of Mr. M.A. Stutsman in Barstow, California; Two Boys in the Foreign Legion - young men choose to escape from the French Foreign Legion in the African desert, pursued by Arabs; Photo and brief write-up of "The Joshua Tree", the world's largest Yucca tree in southern California; The Buried Cities of Asia Minor - II - investigating the cities of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; The Cowboy Outlaw - Kid Curry terrorized the western states; Odds and Ends - Hungarian barber and Egyptian fisherman at work; nice vintage ads. Average wear. Bits of external tape secure spine. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.